Tech Meme

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: Evan Blass leaks over a dozen images ahead of Samsung Unpacked, showing the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, new Galaxy Watch 6, Galaxy Tab S9 tablets, and more  —  All we need to know at this stage is pricing and availability details.  —  •  —  TL;DR  — A long-time leaker has posted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Ye / Reuters: Alibaba plans to let business customers use Meta’s Llama 2 to build apps, the first Chinese company to do so; companies with <700M MAUs can use Llama for free  —  Alibaba’s (9988.HK) cloud computing division said it has become the first Chinese enterprise to support Meta’s (META.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Waters / Financial Times: An interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on generative AI, the Microsoft-OpenAI deal, competition among cloud providers offering generative AI services, and more  —  Head of Amazon Web Services says Microsoft and OpenAI are not way ahead — there will be choice and competition Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian: A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity  —  Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anto Antony / Bloomberg: A profile of Indian edtech giant Byju’s CEO Byju Raveendran, who has been in crisis mode for months but is expecting a $1B equity investment as early as August  —  – Indian firm has struggled to overcome issues with liquidity  — US investors accused Byju’s of hiding half a billion dollars Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeff Wilser / CoinDesk: A look at the origins of Worldcoin’s eye-scanning orb, how the company is trying to safeguard user privacy, its tokenomics, policy challenges, and more  —  Is Sam Altman’s UBI startup a smart countermeasure to AI, or a privacy nightmare?  Jeff Wilser reports.  —  I’ve traveled to Berlin to stare into the future. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Guardian: UNESCO calls for a global ban on smartphones in schools, saying intensive technology use negatively impacts student performance and increases disruption  —  Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: PitchBook: US AR/VR/XR startups raised $208M in June, nearly as much as in the previous three months combined, with Vision Pro creating “an inflection point”  —  Mixed reality start-ups gain from tech giant’s aim to usher in new era of ‘spatial computing’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google says 2B+ logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, up from 1.5B+ in June 2022, and YouTube is reaching 150M people on their TVs in the US  —  Google said today that more than 2 billion logged-in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts, giving it an edge over competitors like TikTok and Instagram Reels. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Ant Group plans to exclude blockchain and other businesses from its financial-related unit that will be used for a Chinese financial holding license  —  – Ant plans to break off overseas, blockchain units: sources  — State-owned firms plan to take part in Ant’s share buyback Lees verder op Tech Meme